Senior Analyst

at  NHS South Central and West Commissioning Support Unit

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a proactive analyst to join SCW’s Contract Analytics team on a fix term contract.
The aim of this role is to provide business intelligence and insight, and leveraging the efficiencies of at scale products and solutions, working with the wider BI teams, to enable local delivery for the client.
The role supports the operational delivery of the BI Analytics Operating Model and SCWs data strategy.
This is a key role in the contracting intelligence team, supporting clients and stakeholders by offering expertise and knowledge in contract analytics.

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• Support the contracting multi-disciplinary team (MDT) approach by providing expert knowledge of the NHS Standard Contract, identifying and detailing data requirements, and offering guidance and insight to inform decision making.
• Support the development and delivery of at-scale products and solutions ensuring the integration with overall Business Intelligence operating model.
• Developing and delivering enhanced reporting and visualisation across a variety of BI functions; sharing and educating the team on the capabilities and benefits of high quality, insightful, analytics that facilitates decision making.
• Operate flexibly and in a matrix management style.
• Be a role model and promote a culture aligned to SCW vision, values, and data strategy.
• Providing effective insight-driven, analytics visualisation and reporting to our clients.
• Work with client stakeholders to understand business needs and provide specialist analytical advice and insight to inform decision making and service transformation.

The post holder will work as part of a cross-organisational multi-disciplinary team which also includes contract managers and finance managers and will support to assist in their successful delivery. The aim of this role is to provide reporting and analysis of information to support delivery of requirements as identified by the SLA with our customers (internal and external) whose overarching goal is to commission effectively within the local health economy, whilst maintaining national performance standards. They will conduct analysis, interpretation and presentation of highly complex data and information to support planning and decision making on health improvement and healthcare commissioning and delivery.
The Senior Analyst is a specialist at providing data analysis as well as managing, implementing, and adapting reporting systems to support new policies and advising on the use of data. They will also provide training to enable users to become self-sufficient in basic analysis. Previous NHS experience, data analysis skills, and working knowledge of MS Excel & MS SQL will be advantageous.
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1.1. Provide analytical support to the management of the contract portfolio held by the ICS. This would include construction of standard monthly outputs such as contract monitoring reports and contract challenges.
1.2. Carry out analysis, interpretation and presentation of health datasets & information to support decisions on health improvement and healthcare commissioning & delivery.
1.3. Respond to ad-hoc and FOI data analysis requests.
1.4. Manage and maintain standard operating procedures for service outputs and processes.
1.5. Providing analytics and expertise to enable the Contracting Intelligence team to support client requirements.
1.6. Support delivery and implementation of specific projects within the service.
1.7. Develop and deliver informative analytics, visualisations, and reporting solutions to support service deliverables and client outputs.
1.8. Liaising with clients and users to ensure what we deliver meets the client needs and is aligned to the BI Analytics Operating Model.
1.9. Provide training, advice and support to colleagues as required.
1.10. Present information and issues, explaining complex issues to stakeholders.
1.11. Develop a client focused ethos within the team.
1.12. Establish and maintain good working relationships with stakeholders.
1.13. Proactively progressing tasks to deliver projects and work plans, escalating any issues in a timely manner.
1.14. Management of data quality and integrity to ensure information is accurate and can be used with confidence.
1.15. To deputise for the Principal BI Contract Analyst (Contracting Intelligence) as required

• Support the contracting multi-disciplinary team (MDT) approach by providing expert knowledge of the NHS Standard Contract, identifying and detailing data requirements, and offering guidance and insight to inform decision making.
• Support the development and delivery of at-scale products and solutions ensuring the integration with overall Business Intelligence operating model.
• Developing and delivering enhanced reporting and visualisation across a variety of BI functions; sharing and educating the team on the capabilities and benefits of high quality, insightful, analytics that facilitates decision making.
• Operate flexibly and in a matrix management style.
• Be a role model and promote a culture aligned to SCW vision, values, and data strategy.
• Providing effective insight-driven, analytics visualisation and reporting to our clients.
• Work with client stakeholders to understand business needs and provide specialist analytical advice and insight to inform decision making and service transformation